Utah should take advantage of a grant to put air purifiers in its classrooms. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer, File) In this Dec. 10, 2018, photo, smokestacks near an oil refinery are seen in front of the Utah State Capitol as an inversion settles over The catastrophic dumbing down of America has in the movie “Don’t Look […]
News Archive
Welcome to the Fluoride Action Network News Archive. The FAN News Archive serves as an historical repository for fluoride news stories, positive or negative. Since FAN catalogs all news stories on fluoride, our news section remains a reliable database of all published fluoride news.
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Fluoride will remain in Draper’s water
After two postponements, the result of the vote regarding fluoride in Draper’s water was announced by WaterPro March 17. 57% voted in favor of keeping fluoride in the water 43% voted against keeping fluoride in the water Darrin Jensen-Peterson is CEO and General Manager of WaterPro, a position he’s held since 2009. He said WaterPro […]
City of Sandy: Approval by Water Board of the Stipulated Consent Order for massive fluoride overfeed
Note from Fluoride Action Network: • Sandy, Utah, fined $37,000 in penalties & fees for allowing 151.5 mg/L, fluoride to flow into the water supply and seriously sicken residents in February 2019. • 1 pm meeting today of the Drinking Water Board -January 12- via https://global.gotomeeting.com/join/566470605 to discuss the Stipulation & Consent agreement with the City […]
Investigation: Government failure at all levels in Sandy fluoride event
SANDY — An independent investigation by an engineering firm looking at last year’s fluoride overfeed in Sandy that sickened hundreds of residents reveals missteps at all levels by government agencies handling the emergency. Those agencies include the city of Sandy, the Salt Lake County Health Department and the state division with responsibility over regulating drinking […]
EXCLUSIVE: Cause of Sandy’s water contamination not what city leaders originally thought
SANDY (KUTV) — The reason potentially dangerous levels of fluoride were pumped into Sandy City drinking water is not what city leaders initially said. Jim Spiewak reports: Cause of Sandy’s water contamination not what city leaders originally said. (Video: KUTV) Next week will mark one year since hundreds of homes, in several zones, were thought […]
Fluoridating Moab’s water could reduce cavities by up to 27%, health experts say
“Too good to be true,” is an idea that, according to most oral health professionals, does not apply to fluoridated water. The practice, common across the United States and in some other nations, is not practiced in Moab, but local oral health specialists say it would be a great boon to residents – particularly young […]
Investigation says Sandy City failed to give public notice about water contamination
Note from the Fluoride Action Network The final report titled, Investigation Report: Sandy City Fluoride Overfeed, was released on May 23, 2019. It is available at http://fluoridealert.org/wp-content/uploads/sandy.final-report.5-23-2019.pdf _______________________________________________________________ SANDY, Utah — Sandy’s Public Utility Director Tom Ward was reinstated after an investigation into Sandy City’s response to water contamination in February found the city did […]
‘We overdosed them’: Outside investigation details Sandy City missteps in dealing with water crisis
(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) In this Feb. 17 file photo, cases of water are stored at the Sandy Operations Center at 9150 So. 150 East for residents to drive through and pick up. The problem started about Feb. 6, when a fluoride pump malfunctioned because of a power outage. It flooded the water […]
Report: Sandy limiting notice of water contamination to avoid ‘panic’ was ‘not warranted’
Investigation finds ‘the city may have either underestimated or downplayed this event’ SANDY — While contaminated water made 239 people sick in February, Sandy took too long figuring out who was impacted by the fluoride overfeed and too long to inform them, according to a new report. “A notice not to drink the water until […]
Sandy City Public Utilities Director Tom Ward reinstated
Mayor Kurt Bradburn announced today the reinstatement of Tom Ward as Sandy City’s Public Utilities Director after completion of an independent investigation conducted by the law firm Parsons Behle & Latimer. The report which included review of thousands of documents, media responses, social media posts and in person interviews found that “Sandy’s operational response to […]